Cultural Analysis Term Paper:

For this research paper: using one of the theoretical approaches learned in this course, you will analyze a popular cultural topic related to gender or ethnicity (or the intersectionality of the two).  Your task will be to 1) explain how this phenomenon or issue topic is a part of popular culture; 2) explain its communication and sociological significance; and describe the causes and effects of popular culture in relation to your topic. To do this, you should review a variety of literature (including a minimum of four scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles) on the topic.  Links to some scholarly articles are in Canvas. 

To do this, you should review a variety of literature (including a minimum of four scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles) on the topic.  Links to some scholarly articles are below, or you can find your own. 

In addition to utilizing the scholarly literature, you can use popular news sources so that you can compare and contrast the content of the popular sources to the scholarly sources.  The Library website provides examples of both.

Format of the Paper:

• I expect this paper to be approximately 800 words (excluding references page), typed and double-spaced, with a 12-point traditional font and standard 1-inch margins.
• Papers must utilize APA style citations and references, and they must include in-text citations and a References list at the end (list only sources cited in the text of your essay). In other words, in-text citations must match sources in your References list.
• Do not include a title page. Put topic at the beginning of paper.
• Student names should appear in the page headings and page #s should appear in the footings.

***Topic For Term Paper 

 Bad Girls: Representations of Race, sexuality gender of women in Popular Culture. My paper will be about how popular culture generates and articulates our understandings of 
gender and sexuality and their intersections with race and class.